Because then they will cost close 5+ cents each and you can't mint 2/3rds less because the new copper cents will continued to disappear from...
I'm sure all of your mistresses will be nice. In keeping with the topic, one the members of one of my local coin clubs showed off a dateless 1916...
And of course the label on the slab is for an 1881, and the "coin" is an 1881 CC
If I remember, they have a lower mintage than the 2009 D, but when you consider they have a higher mintage than the 1959 plain nickel which...
Yes it looks off, and it should. That is how the 1932 And S quarters looked, high mintmarks that are sitting in a hole. Makes them look like...
Before 1964 that 1883 CC would have been considered a scarce/rare coin. All of the CC issues were considered scarce and rare in high grades....
Characteristic of the 1818 N-10
The crazy price swings were the result of three things. First the creation of the grading services PCGS and NGC. Second the entry of Wall Steet...
Photo-Certification Coin Institute. Began operations in 1986. It's been through a lot of generations of holders and at least six owners...
The OP coin is a large fraction so it is either a 275 or a 276. I believe they have the same reverse. Yours appears to be 276. The key is the...
Since no one appears to have said specifically, Yes, all of the first three coins are speared olive coins and therefor made by the Confederacy....
The last vestige of bit pricing in the US ended in August 2000 when the stock market switched from pricing in eighths of a dollar to tenths of a...
PCGS and NGC have also done the same thing. I believe ICG did it was well.
Looks like the "Vampire" hub is still around.
While the Annual Mint Report for recent years doesn't really contain much information, there is a tremendous amount of information in the older...
It isn't so much knowing someone on the inside, it's more someone on the inside knowing you. The people on the inside don't really know enough to...
Well now I'm gotten a second coin for my early dates. I was successful on one lot in the Ellsworth collection I got an 1801 NC-2 large cent. It...
The 12 I 1961 most likely is Jan 12, 1961. Outside the US most countries use the date format DD/MM/YYYY.
Amazon began a seller of used books. It expanded from that to the goliath it is today.
There are five volumes in the Gobrecht Journal compilations.
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